DAA News Network

Disability groups have called for a lobby of Kensington & Chelsea Council's Cabinet Meeting on the 21st of July to protest the attack on human rights of Elaine McDonald.
As reported by DAA, the UK's Supreme Court has ruled in support of the c ...

Hundreds of disabled people protested in downtown Cairo on June 17th demanding that the government should enforce a 2010 law that compels the public and private sectors to allocate five per cent of their jobs to the disabled people, whose number e ...

Disability rights groups are threatening to march to the Osu Castle and Parliament House in Accra to protest the government's failure to bring in the necessary legislative instrument to implement the 2004 Disability Law. The Law provides for access t ...

On Wednesday, May 11th, five thousand disabled people and supporters from all over Britain made their way to London to protest about the government's cuts to benefits and other policy changes that will make life more difficult than it already is for ...

On Wednesday, May 11th, thousands of disabled people and their families and supporters will march on Westminster in a mass protest against benefit cuts.
Jaspal Dhani, chief executive of the United Kingdom Disabled People's Council, said the cuts ...

On March 22nd, unions and organizations of Arab and Sudanese disabled people marched to the United Nations Headquarters in Khartoum to demand the protection of the human rights of disabled people. They also asked that March 22nd be declared a World D ...

On May 11th, disabled people and their supporters will be holding a march on Parliament to express solidarity and anger at the cuts threatening our benefits, services, jobs and rights.
After the march many of us will be lobbying our MPs, as the W ...

A protest has been launched after authorities in Petaling Jaya tried to move five disabled and elderly street vendors from the Taman Megah market.
Disabled people met with Selangor state executive councillor Dr Xavier Jayakumar on Monday, Februar ...

On January 24th, police in London ‘kettled' (confined within metal barriers) a group of disabled people who were demonstrating peacefully against Atos Origin, the company contracted by the government to deal with the administration of disability ...

Some of the most vulnerable groups the government said it would always safeguard are seeing that they have become the primary targets for spending cuts. Faced with the loss of benefits, housing and services, they are finding their voice in the protes ...

The new Housing Emergency Coalition has called a protest outside Downing St on Wednesday December 15th at 12.30 against the Housing Benefit cap and social cleansing - they want people to take cardboard boxes and sleeping bags.
After this disabled ...

A massive rally of 10,000 disabled people in Tokyo on October 29th, called for the new legislation to support disabled people. They have specifically demanded that the 2005 Services and Support for Persons with Disabilities Act be replaced.
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On October 25th, hundreds of disabled people took part in a demonstration opposite the Finance Ministry and Social Affairs Ministry offices in Jerusalem, demanding that their disability benefits be increased to the level of the minimum wage.
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The Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People (NCODP), representing over 40 DPOs and 400 individual members, is mounting a campaign against the proposed budget cuts that threaten to slash a wide range of benefits and services for disabled people and th ...

Twenty-two disabled people were arrested when they stopped traffic during a large, colourful demonstration outside California's Capitol Building on August 18th. 200 to 300 people had come to protest against the savage cuts to programmes supporting ...

In April, government representatives, DPOs, NGOs and others from the region* met at the 3rd Pacific Rim International Forum on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Honolulu. Their main concern was the invisibility of disability and disabled peo ...

The Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD) has called on the government to implement the 2006 Disability Act and ratify the UN Convention. As the former was passed on June 23rd, 2006, the GFD also wants the date to be officially recognised as the ...

At a press conference on May10th, Md. Abdus Sattar Dulal, president of the National Alliance of Disabled Peoples Organizations (NADPO), demanded a 10 percent allocation of the National Budget to support disabled people (who comprise 10% of the countr ...

The General Assembly of European Disability Forum, meeting in Madrid (May 8th and 9th), issued a strongly worded resolution demanding that disabled people do not bear the cost of the current economic crisis.
There is concern that because o ...

On May 5th, disabled people in Chennai, Tamil Nadu staged a hunger strike to protest the decision of Indian Railways to open up disabled-friendly coaches for the general public. This came after nine months of making representations pointing out th ...

It is now April 2010, and for almost 2 months dozens of disabled people have been protesting outside Egypt's parliament building for such basic human rights as housing and jobs.
Mahrousa Salem, coordinator of the demonstration, said, "We'v ...

On March 18th, the Pakistan Disability Forum (PDF) organized a mass demonstration in Islamabad to demand reserved seats for disabled persons to be included the upcoming constitutional amendments. This would give disabled people similar rights to p ...

In Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovinia, disabled employees in the Institute for Dystrophics are on hunger strike over job losses and the threat of bankruptcy. If the latter were to happen the disabled residents would be left ...

40 disabled people went on a hunger strike at Barasat, West Bengal, demanding the reopening of a health centre that has been closed by the district authorities.
"We have been demanding an upgrade of the health service infrastructure for y ...

Plans to tender care services, against the wishes of and without consulting disabled people, was suspended after a 10 hour meeting of the City Council. 300 people attended and police had to be called in to control the crowd. The whole process of t ...

More than 40,000 disabled students suffered physical punishment, including beatings, in US state schools (2006-07) . This was revealed in "Impairing Education: Corporal Punishment of Students with Disabiliti ...

About 2000 disabled people and their families turned up on Saturday, 8th March in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. They wanted to show their disapproval at the govenor's budget plans for May. The proposed cuts would endanger many programs that offer supp ...

DAA is pleased that the UK government is progressing the ratification process. However, the proposed reservations in four important areas is disappointing. After years of campainging and meetings with officials, this outcome is very depressing. Re ...

The Alliance for Inclusive Education ALLFIE is calling all disabled people and their allies for action, because the UK Government is currently planning to reduce our rights in education. At the end of the ALLFIE article, we have reproduced a campa ...

If doctors who won't kill are 'wicked,' the world is sick
By Licia Corbella
Calgary Herald - Saturday, January 10. 2009
Talk about Orwellian. A woman described as a "leading expert in ethics" has decl ...

What I did on International Day.
Where were you on 3rd December 2008? We would love to hear your story. Please leave a comment about what you did, the event you took part in and people you met.
"I had the day off work and met up ...

Remember, Remember the 5th of November ...
In a modern twist on the Gun Powder Plot disabled activists and campaigners will present a petition to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, at 10 Downing Street next week. The petition, of over fif ...